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Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of a uniquely American art form through interactive exhibits and films, the Changing Gallery, the Blue Room jazz club and the Gem Theater, a 500-seat performing arts center.

"The Marr Sound Archives holds nearly 250,000 sound recordings in formats that include LPs, 78s, 45s, cylinders, transcription discs, instantaneous cut discs and open-reel tapes. The collection has very substantial and significant holdings in the following areas: American popular music, Jazz, Blues, and Country, Historic voices, Vintage radio programs, Authors reading their own works, Historic classical and operatic recordings. The popular collection dates from 1890s up to 1980."

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